Posted on 02/10/2021 10:45:12 AM PST by RandFan
If the new impeachment standard is inflammatory speech, then Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer should be the next in line after former President Trump, as far as Sen. Rand Paul is concerned.
The Kentucky Republican on Sunday blasted House Democrats for bringing an article of impeachment against Mr. Trump for “incitement of insurrection” while ignoring the incendiary comments of Mr. Schumer and other Democrats, calling it a “partisan farce.
“I opposed the notion, which I think was a misguided notion, of voting to overturn the election, either with Congress or with the vice president,” said Mr. Paul on “Fox News Sunday.” “But I think if we are going to criminalize speech and somehow impeach everybody who says, oh, go fight to hear your voices heard, really we ought to impeach Chuck Schumer then.”
He cited Mr. Schumer’s March 4 rally in front of the Supreme Court in which the Democrat said that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh would “pay the price” if they ruled against abortion access, prompting a rare rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts, who called his comments “dangerous.”
“He [Schumer] went to the Supreme Court, stood in front of the Supreme Court, and said specifically, hey Gorsuch, hey Kavanaugh, you’ve unleashed a whirlwind, and you’re going to pay the price,” said Mr. Paul.
As a result, “if people want to hold President Trump accountable for language, there has to be a consistent standard, and to my mind it’s a partisan farce because they’re not doing anything to Chuck Schumer, not doing anything to Rep. Omar, not doing anything to Maxine Waters.”
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GO RAND!!!! He INCITED those MURDERING WOMEN to try to break down the Supreme Court DOOR!!!
DO IT, RAND!
Rand Paul is absolutely correct on this.
Rand - hits - nail - on - head !!
Yeah but come now, when Dems say it its all good, they get a free pass and they ALWAYS will because they are Democrats..different standard applies
Won’t happen....Dems are the Nazis with special privileges and the rest of are the Jews..We all know how this ends...
Rand should just declare himself an ‘impeachment manager’ and start an impeachment right away- Declare it constitutional, and just hire a conservative movie company to do a film about schumer and the inciteful things he’s said
If the left complain it isn’t constitutional, just ignore them and continue on- whether noone shows up or not- then declare schumer impeached and ineligible to run next election and forever
I dont really like the argument that IF you;re going to hold Trump accountable then be consistent.
The argument is Trump is innocent. He did not use any language that caused an immediate riot.
However, Schumer DID use such language because the mob listening to him that day at the Court did actually riot after he spoke.
Blasio should be charged with yelling “fire” in a theatre...and NYC is the theatre. Just look what Antifa and BLM and Dem followers did to the city.
Schumer can spew whatever bile he wants from the senate floor, but outside he is to be held to the same account as anyone else.
Impeach Schumer.
Then Impeach the Obozo and Holder for their Fast and Furious gun running operation to the Mexican drug lords. Their crime got many people killed.
Oh yeah, impeach and prosecute Bill Clinton for his role in the Waco TX massacre for the Federal government killing Christian American citizens!
Captain Obvious gets a base hit!
Maxine: Me? Say what? He be sho' 'nuff outta his haid. I jes sent out my fans to get in people's faces at their home and restaurants, to attack and fight them so they wouldn't be able to rest. That's all.
Yay, pointing out hypocrisy is well... all we can do I guess.
The constitution says members shall not be questioned in any other place. He can be questioned in the Senate.
Not that the Senate would ever account for itself, just throwing it out as a n academic point.
They wanted to censure Hawley and Cruz... What happened to that? They risk opening a Pandora’s box if they try it
Maxine Waters is on camera calling for violence. Impeach her. She didn’t say anything like ‘go and protest peacefully and patriotically and make your voices heard’. She said, get in their face, and find them where they eat and work.
sometimes rand say things that i say
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